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• n  an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
• n  annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

• Historians have long sung the praises of the potato when talking about the boom in population and urbanization we saw in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• When is a potato chip not a potato chip? Not when it is "made from potatoes cooked, mashed and dehydrated, resulting in potato granules which are later moistened, rolled out, cut .
• With a secondhand fryer, Chase began experimenting with his own potato chips.

• white potato
• Irish potato
• murphy
• spud
• tater
• white potato vine
• Solanum tuberosum

News & Articles

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• Potato & Corn Fest Grows to Four Days
  NORTH BRANFORD - The North Branford Corn & Potato Festival grows to a four-day event this year, Aug. 1 through 4. That means the need for more volunteers has grown,...
  June 12, 2013 - The Sound
• You Say Potato, I Say Double-Stranded RNA
  You Say Potato, I Say Double-Stranded RNA
  June 12, 2013 - Scientific American via Yahoo! News
• Sweet potato processing facility hosting job fairs
  Project Trinity, the sweet potato processing industry opening in Pembroke, NC, has scheduled two jobs fairs at the Employment Security Commission on Corporate Drive next to Lumberton Honda.
  June 12, 2013 - WPDE Myrtle Beach - Florence

Quotes

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• Margaret Spellings in FOXNews
  I didn't want to be the education secretary who didn't know how to spell potato,Spellings joked, describing how she read books and sought advice from a former show contender and her daughters.
• Blonsky in Forbes
  I credit it to the spirit of Baltimore. My feet just started moving, doing the Twist and the Mashed Potato. I didn't even know how,Blonsky said. "I was looking at my feet, going, `OK, Nikki, calm down. How are you doing this? How are you...
• Laura Bush in International Herald Tribune
  Afghan potato farmers in Bamiyan have learned storage methods from an Idaho potato farmer that are making their crops more profitable,said Bush, who had made an unannounced trip to Bamiyan four days earlier.